Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

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Classical Music

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With this first project for Zig-Zag Territories, the musicians of the Canadian ensemble Masques under the direction of the harpsichordist Olivier Fortin demonstrate their passion for Austrian Baroque composer Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer. Ensemble Masques offers sonatas for five and six instruments, alternating with character pieces like Die Fechtschule (an evocation of battle), Die Polnische Sackpfeiffe, and the famous Lamento sopra il morte Ferdinandi III. This varied program highlights the diversity and the Italian inspiration of Schmeltzer's music.

• Volume 3 of Beethoven-Liszt transcriptions • Yuri Martynov plays a recently restored 1867 Blüthner piano, a piano maker much admired by Liszt • Volume 4 due early 2015 • Volume 5 due early 2016 • Comprehensive booklet notes in French and English • Yuri Martynov plays Prokofiev due autumn 2014

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Vincent Peirani and Francois Salque's guiding thread for their second release is the music of South America, and more specifically Astor Piazzolla. Their two sonorities, as magnificent as they are different, intertwine and interlace amid the melodic and rhythmic undulations of the pieces, sometimes adapted, sometimes created by Peirani, Salque and Tomas Gubitsch.

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